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Spend a full day exploring the art and business of boudoir with Jacklyn Greenberg, Anita Sadowska, Yuliya Panchenko, Cate Scaglione, and Marco Ibanez. Discover how to create natural, expressive images through unposing, approach couples boudoir with thoughtful posing and lighting, build a brand that balances artistry with social media, and sustain a profitable business.

Through stage presentations, live demonstrations, and studio time with the presenters, you’ll gain practical techniques to strengthen your work and your client experience. Bring your camera for the studio sessions, where you’ll put new ideas into practice with guidance from the presenters. Leave with fresh creative ideas, greater confidence in your direction, and strategies to help your boudoir business thrive.

Great photography is only part of a successful business. Join Felicia Reed, Sandra Coan, Pye Jirsa, Ben Hartley, Paul Weaver, and Myrna Daramy for a full day focused on attracting the right clients, turning inquiries into bookings, and earning more from your work.

Learn strategies that work from experts who have built successful photography businesses and helped others do the same. Discover how to attract clients without paid ads, turn social content into qualified leads, and build a marketing process that drives bookings. Strengthen your sales process, price your services with confidence, and learn how to raise your rates while sustaining demand.

Whether you’re struggling to fill your calendar or ready to charge more and shoot less, you’ll leave with clear steps to put into action in your own business. Make your marketing count, turn more inquiries into clients, and build a business that rewards the work you put into it.

What makes a portrait unmistakably yours, and how do you turn that creative vision into a career? Join Mark Clennon, Aundre Larrow, Lindsay Adler, Irene Rudnyk, and Emily Soto for a full day connecting personal style, technical craft, and professional growth.

Explore the path into commercial photography, experiment with creative lighting, discover editing techniques for dreamy portraits, and learn how to build a cohesive visual identity. Stage presentations and live demonstrations will reveal how these photographers approach their work, while studio time offers a chance to shoot and learn alongside them.

Bring your camera and come ready to explore new approaches, refine your eye, and expand what’s possible in your portrait work.

You are not powerless, and you are not becoming obsolete. As platforms, algorithms, and AI reshape photography, there are parts of your business you can build, own, and protect. What should you be building now to stay visible, valuable, and in control of your future?

Join Jamie Rachelle, Larkin Kendall, Catalina Jean, Natalie Franke, and Paige Griffith to learn how to establish a trusted digital home, develop a recognizable creative voice, and make your business discoverable across search and AI results. Discover how to turn followers into an audience you can reach directly, protect your intellectual property, and use new technology while retaining ownership of your work.

Through expert presentations and an honest conversation about photography’s next chapter, explore what will become more valuable as technology advances and what makes your perspective difficult to replace. Leave with clear priorities for a lasting business rooted in your creativity, your relationships, and the human qualities clients value.

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The next evolution of the WPPI Lighting Summit. More hands-on. More access. More ways to master light. Learn directly from Michael Anthony, Dixie Dixon, and Roberto Valenzuela in a full-day experience split between stage demonstrations and hands-on practice.

Discover how to build one lighting setup and create all the assets you need, from stills and motion to social content, without starting over every time you switch formats. See how to move between photography and video while maintaining a consistent look, quality, and creative vision, then put those techniques into practice with guidance from the instructors. Bring your camera and come ready to shoot.

Three masters. One setup. All the assets. Stills + motion.

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Create work couples connect with and build a wedding photography business that supports your ambitions. Join Taylor Jackson, Jennifer Moher, Fer Juaristi, Elizabeth Austin, and Rebecca Yale for a full day exploring the connection between distinctive images, a compelling brand, and a profitable career.

Learn how to build a brand that gets you booked, bring cinematic atmosphere and emotion into your storytelling, and recognize the moments that make each wedding meaningful. Find the confidence to trust your creative voice, then explore how pricing and profitability can support a sustainable business.

Stage presentations, live demonstrations, and studio time with the presenters bring these ideas into focus. Bring your camera and come ready to shoot, ask questions, and discover new approaches you can carry into your next wedding.

Learn the fundamentals of AI while building practical assistants for your photography business. Start with a custom brand strategist tailored to your brand and voice to help brainstorm marketing ideas, write copy, and create SEO content that supports lead generation.

Then explore your first AI workflow: an email assistant that flags important messages and potential leads and drafts responses in your voice. You’ll learn how to give AI clear direction and useful context so it can support your marketing, streamline inbox management, and produce results that feel like you.

Lighting plays a huge role in crafting a beautiful narrative photograph. Jonathan Thorpe approaches much of his work as a cinematographer would. In this session, he'll share how he starts with a story before creating an image. Key points include lighting for the subject separately from lighting the location, the role of lens choice in narrative work, and finally, how to bring it all together with minimal editing required.

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During this seminar, John Gress will demonstrate how to achieve high-end, professional-looking results using flashes you already own and modifiers crafted from everyday items you might find around your house or at the store around the corner. Whether you're working with a speedlight or a $4,000 monolight, you'll learn how to shape, control, and finesse your lighting like a pro. But this session isn't really about saving money or building homemade gear...it's about understanding the principles that make great lighting work and discovering creative ways to experiment with them. Along the way, you'll see how everyday materials can be used to explore ideas that apply to every level of photography, from simple portraits to sophisticated setups. You'll leave with practical techniques you can use immediately, a deeper understanding of how light behaves, and fresh ideas for experimenting with tools you may already have at home. If you've ever wondered how photographers create polished, professional images, this class will show you that great lighting starts with understanding how light works. The techniques you'll learn can be applied with improvised tools, the gear you already own, or the professional equipment you may add to your kit in the future.

Off-camera flash doesn't have to be complicated. In this hands-on photo walk, Jeff Chang will show you a simple, approachable way to incorporate flash into your wedding photography. Working with a couple, attendees will walk through a series of real-world scenarios, both inside and outside the hotel. Indoors, you'll learn how to use direct off-camera flash to shape light, control the environment, and create clean, intentional images. Outside, Jeff will show you how to use flash in direct sunlight to create bold, Vogue-inspired portraits with depth and drama. Bring your camera and flash. A transmitter is helpful but not necessary for this workshop. Jeff will break down his camera and flash settings, positioning, and techniques, explaining not just how he uses flash, but when and why. Leave with a repeatable workflow and the confidence to make off-camera flash a natural extension of your style.

(This class requires pre-registration. Please purchase it with your WPPI pass or add it to your existing registration.)

Great photographs do not require extraordinary locations. During this hands-on photo walk, Audrey Woulard will show attendees how she evaluates everyday environments and uses light, composition, camera position, and subject placement to create strong images in places others might overlook. Attendees will learn how to see more possibilities within a single location and create variety without constantly searching for a new backdrop, including how to quickly evaluate a location for its strongest photographic possibilities, how to use camera position and composition to transform ordinary surroundings, how to choose subject placement based on available light and background, how to create multiple distinctly different images within one location, and how to make faster decisions when working in unfamiliar environments.

(This class requires pre-registration. Please purchase it with your WPPI pass or add it to your existing registration.)